Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 12 April 1921

Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-) Calendar

At least 22 villages were exposed to radiation from the disaster, with a total population of around 10.000 people evacuated. Some were evacuated after a week but it took almost 2 years for evacuations to occur at other sites. It was only in 1976 that dissident Zhores Medvedev made the nature and extent of the disaster known to the world. In 1992 a study conducted by the Soviet Institute of Biophysics found that 8.015 people had died within the preceding 32 years as a result of the accident.
(29 September 1957)

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There are 3392 births, 3956 deaths, 1122 murders, 498 disasters and 2088 other events about 5745 people in 6459 places until today.

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BirthFactDeath (x) Tuesday 12th of April 1921 105 years, 1 months and 6 days ago
22-year-old serial killer John Christie aka The Strangler of 10 Rillington Place is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment for stealing postal orders in Halifax Borough Police Court, Harrison Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.